How We Found Out:
June 2011: Dustin was working a very early shift at Walgreens the day we found out about our first pregnancy. It was one of those things where we were ready & wanting to have our first baby. So, early that morning at about 5am, all by myself, I found out that we were blessed to be pregnant. Of course, with it being our first, I had to come up with some sort of creative way to tell Dustin. I remember how slowly the hours went by, waiting for him to get home from work. I had gone to Target to get a piggy bank and attached a cute little note to it. We couldn't believe our dream was finally coming true!!!! Here was how we told our parents. I still love going back and watching these videos:
October 2011: It was Fall Break from school and my parents were in town. We had finished doing yard work and were all taking naps before getting ready to head out to dinner. I remember waking Dustin up and telling him that I just had this weird, internal feeling that I was pregnant. I had no symptoms or anything, just that internal feeling. So, I asked him to go to Walgreens to pick up a pregnancy test. He lied and told my parents that he was going to get an SD card for our camera before we headed out to dinner. Sure enough, a few minutes after he came home from his errand, we found out we were pregnant with our second baby! It was so bittersweet. I didn't care about coming up with a special way to tell anyone. In fact, I marched right out into the kitchen and told my parents. We were so excited to be pregnant again so soon after our miscarriage! We were 5 1/2 weeks along when we found out. I love this picture because it always reminds me of the night we told both sets of our parents that we were pregnant again...
April 2013: Much like the second time around, we found out about this pregnancy based on my gut instincts. It was a Sunday and Dustin was out doing work stuff; I called him and asked him to pick up a pregnancy test on his way home. I told him I had taken one earlier and that there was a really, really faint second line. I even started to second guess myself that the second line wasn't there (that's how faint it was). So, I asked him to pick up a digital one that clearly says "pregnant" or "not pregnant". Again, I took it right when he got home and it said "not pregnant". I knew otherwise, so I decided I would wait until morning to use the other one, and sure enough at 6am the next morning, it said "pregnant". Turns out, I was only 3 weeks pregnant when we found out with this one. Susie took this picture the day we told them about our third pregnancy:
I feel like these are moments in my life that I will NEVER forget; it's in that moment of getting a positive pregnancy test that your life forever changes. I think any woman that has experienced that exciting moment knows what I'm talking about. I've been blessed to experience it three times, and it NEVER gets any less exciting!
